Author Bios

David Cooper is an economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute. His work focuses on the minimum wage, state labor markets, poverty, and wage and income trends.

Alyn Ware is global coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and disarmament program director for the World Future Council.

Andrew Lichterman is a lawyer and activist who has served in various capacities at Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) since 1983, and has served on its board since 1985. He began …

Caroline Holmund is a British consultant and freelance writer based in New York. She has been previously published in The Hill and Foreign Policy Journal.

Georgie Johnson is the social media editor at Greenpeace's @Energydesk and the subeditor at @tweetskindeep.

Maud Hickey is an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of Music Education in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. She is with The OpEd Project's Public Voices …

Beata Tsosie-Pena is a member of Tewa Women United in New Mexico.

Gina Yannitell Reinhardt is a lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.

Renata Avila is a human rights lawyer specialised in intellectual property and new technologies from Guatemala. She worked as one of the lawyers representing the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate …

Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.